VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-4551

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.52%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-10-14
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an IKE_SA_INIT message with a large number of NULL values in a Key Exchange payload, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference for the return value of the mpz_export function in the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP).

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